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Orion Crew Access Arm Reaches for New, Heritage Technologies
Kennedy Space Center Ground Systems Development and Operations engineers are combining heritage technology and new innovations to design the crew access arm for the Orion spacecraft.
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Volunteers Clean Kennedy Space Center's Beach
Members of the Kennedy Space Center workforce, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Ocean Conservancy join forces for a beach cleanup effort.
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Kick-Start Program Encourages Innovation
The Kennedy Kick-Start competition is a center-wide effort designed to increase exposure for these innovative ideas and increase the chances these concepts will make a positive impact.
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Landing Pads Designed for Extraterrestrial Missions
NASA scientists and engineers are studying the challenges and hazards involved in landing on extraterrestrial destinations such as the moon or Mars.
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Endeavour Flyovers Draw Excited Fans
NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft pilots will carry Endeavour to its new home in Los Angeles.
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Boeing Completes First Integrated Capability Milestone
The Boeing Company recently completed a review of its CST-100 spacecraft, integrated launch vehicle and operational plans as its first performance milestone for NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative.
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Mobile Launcher Platforms Prepped for New Generation
NASA's launch bases are being revamped to serve a variety of next-generation launch vehicles.
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Researchers Look to Alien Soils for Heat Shield
A concept to make heat shields from the regolith of an asteroid, Mars or the moon faces testing.
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LEDs Used in Plant Growth Experiments
A group of plant biologists is seeking the answers as it works on one of NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Habitation Projects.
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Space Center Balances Nature and Launch Operations
Aquatic biologists at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida led a boat tour through areas that have been closed off to the general public for decades because of launch operations.
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Expo Highlights Kennedy Innovations
Researchers, engineers and technicians highlighted some of their work at Kennedy during the Innovation Expo, along with hosting tours and exhibits.
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Atlantis' New Home Tops Out
Workers placed a steel beam in place at the highest point of the exhibit hall being built for space shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center.
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Armstrong Praised as an American Hero
Neil Armstrong is being hailed as one of the greatest heroes of America's efforts to explore.
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Boeing Tests CST-100 Parachute Protector
The Boeing Company recently completed a jettison test of its forward heat shield, which will protect the parachutes of the company's CST-100 spacecraft during future missions to and from low Earth orbit.
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From R2-D2 to Curiosity: Good Fiction to Great Science
NASA's Curiosity rover is firing imaginations again as it moves across Mars acting in some ways like the fictional robots from "Star Wars."
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NASA Administrator Touts Strides Along Space Coast
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden takes media on a tour of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station facilities on Aug. 23.
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Endeavour Closer to New Mission of Inspiration
With its hatch closed one final time, the space shuttle Endeavour is a step closer to its new mission of inspiring future generations.
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CSI: NASA
Failure analysis lab engineers call on technology, smarts and persistance to find out what happened when a launch goes wrong.
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Twin Probes to Study Radiation Belts
Radiation Belt Storm Probes will study Earth's ever-changing radiation belts in greater detail than ever before.
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First Saturn V Rollout Began an Era of Exploration
Apollo 4 opened an era of exploration from Kennedy Space Center.